[Chess Ref]

I had several funny and strange comments from the coaches. Thought you might appreciate them.

One of the better teams had their coach come out in between innings and wanted to let me know that he had some safety concerns. In my head I'm thinking did that sprinkler top come off again. He says if I don't give his pitcher a bigger outside corner she will have to throw the ball over the plate and then the batters will hit it right back at her and maybe hit her in the face. I chuckled quitely and thanked him for pointing that out. I thought this was something I might hear from a JV coach.....

Also had the coach who insisted that 2 trips to the "mound" in the same inning meant they had to change pitchers. I explained the charged conference rule to him, yet he kept insisting on it. It got to the point that I had to tell him to go back to the dugout and coach his team. So he gets there and starts talking about he wants to protest. So I stop the game and say okay. Then one of his parents who was up against the fence starts barking at the coach. the parent basically told him to learn the rules and let the dang girls play. he goes back to dugout and don't hear a peep from him anymore......

There also seemed to be an underlying thing about protests. Like all the coaches got together and came up with "we'll threaten a protest and the blue will back down." I figured that one out pretty quick and as soon as I heard the word protest I stopped the game and was more than willing to get the UIC. It also helped that the UIC was always within 30 seconds of our fields........